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Holy cow, it's already Friday Scratch that its 35 degrees in the garage and I have an itching to play ... Well James went down for his nap. I should get out and do some work ... I hope to get to the airfield both days, so my son and I can ...	6	11 hours, 38 minutes ago by Jack
Watches Again out of my price range. Last tank of Sonoco 94 cost me $74.00, but ... There's another model (not a Tag-Heuer) that I'm also eying. I don't want to jinx ... Now that is nice. A.	58	1 day, 4 hours ago by André Rousseau
Under-appreciated classics I have a soft spot for the Peugeot 504 diesel. Give me one of these ... Jim- I just bought it and you can see it listed in Hemmings- I jumped ... "My apologies... however I just sold my Dodge Viper to purchase a 1971 TVR Vixen. ...	40	1 day, 15 hours ago by capri73
Lane Auto Museum - Z Cars It sounds like a date then, you get some official looking badges and I will ... They haven't even invited us! No help here. David how can I get into that Nissan open house on Tuesday? Anybody got a spare ...	28	1 day, 16 hours ago by pete240z
No Soliciitation What about one of those, "If you can read this, you're in range" signs? Too ... No Solicitation signs don't work. I used to ignore them routinely while selling postage meters. How 'bout No Solicitation claymores?	11	1 day, 20 hours ago by Tommy Suddard
FINALLY! A classic of my own I am jealous. I would love a Spit, GT6 or a TR-250. Strangely enough those ... That's awesome. Congrats! Nice color, too. We used to have a GT6-powered Spit here at the office a ...	9	2 days, 2 hours ago by Greg Voth
New car reviews brainstorming I definitely agree with putting our name on it. And as a PS to my above comment, I'm calling this index thingie the GRM ... GRM Performance/Budget Index	24	2 days, 6 hours ago by Tim Baxter
Agenda Tommy has me up and running on the Staff Forum now. And I have read ... I agree with Margie about the name id's. People don't fill out forms consistently, and ... what is going on? I posted and now it's gone!	40	2 days, 21 hours ago by Gary Hunter
Need help with new car reviews I think at last count we had 20-30 manufacturers. I'd need to count them up ... Do we have enough cars to group them by manufacturer? I do like the related ... Probably easiest (by far) to group by year. I think we should reconsider the list ...	30	2 days, 21 hours ago by Tim Baxter
iRacing demo Did an online race last night and it was awesome. Was worried that there wouldn't ... On a related note, the iRacing people are dropping off their truck Friday night. They ... Well, depends on how special you are. I guess some of us have special powers.	6	4 days, 3 hours ago by Scott Lear
Our online stores David, as I understand it, any remaining '07 shirts are being sent out as freebies ... Oh yeah, one more item for the store. We still have some $2007 Challenge T-shirts. ... Tom said:In my experience, MSG is pretty good at finding matches when entering subscriptions. As ...	28	6 days, 2 hours ago by Tim Baxter
movie cars Last night Elvis was in the building as "It happened at the World's Fair" showed. ... Not sure if your answer is here, but some people have more free time than ... TCM just finished showing the movie "The Battle of Britain". Good movie and watching the ...	3	6 days, 3 hours ago by rconlon
Insanely low prices on back issues Yes, buy some back issues! Call this an inventory reduction sale. Our back issue blowout is back by popular demand. Get 5 issues (our choice) for ...	2	1 week, 1 day ago by David S. Wallens
Classic Motorsports patches and jackets Right now all of the jackets in stock have U.S. flags. Sorry about that. (I ... Nice stuff! I might as well get that Issue #105 while I'm at it too! Are the jackets the steve mcqueen ones? Any way to ah sub the US flag ...	8	1 week, 1 day ago by David S. Wallens
ARRC Debbie got the info to me, and we'll have a news item in the next ... We're supposed to have a news item in this next GRM about our involvement with ...	2	1 week, 2 days ago by David S. Wallens
Project cars that never reall wrapped up The comment above was directed at the Mustang project, but really, most of the completed ... Which ones in particular? Pointed out by one of the masses: "It would be cool if someone could spend ...	3	1 week, 2 days ago by Tim Baxter
Daytona Brumos 250 wrap (ad and PR content, too!) First off, wow, what a race. Margin of victory for the Daytona Prototype class was ...	1	2 weeks, 2 days ago by David S. Wallens
Computer Backups Oh, and it's important to note that by default it does NOT back up any ... Well, it hasn't broken anything, so I can only assume that it's working. Aside from ... I haven't used it myself, being an idiot when it comes to backups, but I've ...	7	2 weeks, 3 days ago by Scott Lear
CMS and GRM merchandise photos GRM sticker photos have been uploaded to Jungledisk. Baxter just asked me for updated GRM sticker photos, so they have been added to ... I just uploaded a ton of merchandise photos to Jungledisk for use in ads, Web, ...	3	2 weeks, 3 days ago by David S. Wallens
Monthly report It's still a good idea that keeps getting pushed back, first by general issues, then ... Whatever happened to the idea of inviting the GRM regulars back to the message board ... Again, for the tenth time, I need these reports emailed to me every month. I ...	4	2 weeks, 3 days ago by Tim Baxter
Jungle Disc There's a link from the monitor thingy to http://www.jungledisk.com/desktop/download.aspx basically, updating consists of downloading and ... How do we get the update? If Jungle disc is giving you problems, and you don't have the latest update, go ...	3	2 weeks, 4 days ago by Tim Baxter
Porsche 914 project, anyone? I "think" that these have been vetted by the 914world.com community, but I will double ... This would be a good time to mention, if you're interested in the 914 project ... Someone just sent me this e-mail, but right now we don't need any new projects: ...	3	3 weeks, 1 day ago by KaptKaos
Fuel ecomony/classic/cool rides How about a Vespa? Classy looks and easy on gas. Plus it doesn't take up ... I have several old cars that do pretty well on gas . best one is ... Although it may get you yelled at, it seems that if you drop an LSX ...	41	3 weeks, 6 days ago by David S. Wallens
Car books Books are really expensive to ship. Tom took them. Coulda had another contest! I have some car books that need to be stored somewhere else--like your house, Mandala ...	3	3 weeks, 6 days ago by David S. Wallens
Chimney Rock Hillclimb One of the first events I did with the magazine was Chimney Rock. JG wrecked ... Well, I went to the WRHC with the main goal of not falling off the ... YES!! The 2008 Wolf Ridge Hillclimb is only 3 weeks away now on June 7/8. ...	16	4 weeks ago by David S. Wallens
Ran when parked Gainesville FL One is still parked on the side, yellow with hardtop and one in the back. ... Tim, what is a good price for a GT6 parts car? There's one on Knoxville, ... Sorry but this was the before picture. Similar to the one that was in Grassroots. ...	7	1 month, 1 week ago by alfabeach
North Carolina Ran When Parked. Tim Nines? Actually, we have the full-res versions you uploaded to "ran when parked" If you have high-rez versions, send them my way.	12	1 month, 3 weeks ago by bluevr6
Beta testing Switch to new site has begun... I'm now directing everyone over to the new site ... Yea, that's his MO. He's a young curmudgeon. Thanks JG. I think we're looking pretty solid. Dave Hardy hates it, and that sucks, ...	7	2 months ago by Tim Baxter
Project car updates I'll take it. I have been giving the CRX some attention, so the Mini hasn't gotten any. I ... Once again, I'm dry on Classic project car updates. If anyone has anything, please post ...	3	2 months ago by Tim Baxter
What's your favorite Japanese classic? The wail from that SM600 was really something. racerdave, thanks a lot for the Supra pics. I've never seen those before and I'm ... honda s600 http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/cars/HondaSM600_shell.shtml jay leno is one lucky sob	67	2 months ago by wjones
Mitty post mortem Overall, I thought it was the smoothest one on our end. I think a larger ... On the club front, I think we need to do a better job on selling ... I realize I'm horribly biased, but I think the turbo install generated some traffic. The ...	5	2 months ago by David Wallens
Reader Rides Nick, currently there's just the one, although you can link to more on a website ... Nice addition, I also like the reader rides section. I've looked through all of them ... Seems I'm in with some very very nice company. Not a lot of comments, but ...	31	2 months, 1 week ago by Tim Baxter
Looking for next project, suggestions? I've owned maybe a dozen X1/9's throughout the years, and they're easily one of my ... X 1/9........:omg::nice: Of course, I am a bit biased but I would suggest an X1/9 as well. ...	30	2 months, 1 week ago by racerdave600
Let's start testing GRM Subscription help will work when the domain is in place. There's a few other pages ... Looks good. My notes: - 404 error on sub help link. - security certificate error ... If you haven't already -- or even if you have -- please poke around the ...	21	2 months, 1 week ago by Tim Baxter
The one that got away.... Wow! That car looks great! :omg: I wish I could stumble across deals like that ... On the other hand, late last year, I bought this really nice, low-mileage, garage kept ... Ones that got away... a few... Back in '90, I was working and had a ...	24	2 months, 2 weeks ago by Ian F
Speedfest at the Mitty Looks like the whole gang made it up to the track just fine. We just ...	1	2 months, 2 weeks ago by David Wallens
surveys Cool: The survey app gives a nifty graphical representation of the answers: http://classicmotorsports.net/survey/answers/08-cms-reader-survey/ Note: that's ... And MOST of the GRM one: http://classicmotorsports.net/survey/08-grm-reader-survey/ The only way I can think of to ... Classic survey: http://classicmotorsports.net/survey/08-cms-reader-survey/	8	2 months, 2 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
Ponte Vedra Beach show Sunday The show was great. Fantastic weather, and some great cars. '74 Daytona coupe, Abarth, 3 ... So, how did the Ponte Vedra Beach show go? I wasn't able to get away ... There's a big European car show in nearby historic Williamsbug, Virginia on Sunday. Last year ...	5	2 months, 3 weeks ago by Burke Bell
Camera tech tip I dropped off the 20D for a cleaning today and learned something: Changing lenses while ...	1	2 months, 3 weeks ago by David Wallens
Digital Meeting 4/28/08 I got the meeting info. The up selling and cross selling info is helpful! I ... A good question that's floating around the office: do we wear Grassroots Motorsports apparel because ... Here's the traveling schedule: Gary - 407.766-4673 (Pathfinder towing small trailer), Greg - 703.200-3764 & ...	14	2 months, 3 weeks ago by Rhonda Heath
GRM site look and feel Can a link to the staff blogs go in the lower-right space under "community." Where are the staff blogs? Oh yeah, what about a link to Classic Motorsports?	5	2 months, 3 weeks ago by David Wallens
Online articles and blog entries Budget Ferrari works for me. The Italian guys have been pretty buzzed about the site ... Tim, Susan and I have been discussing this topic this morning. I vote for the ... Online articles and blog entries are no longer intermingled in the new site admin. This ...	3	2 months, 3 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
CLASSIC Motorsports. Right? And they use metal keys. :grin: Now there's one point I will add to the official definition of a classic car: ... I figured it out. I finally have the answer. A classic car does not have ...	56	2 months, 3 weeks ago by KaptKaos
Unsafe At Any Speed I, too, have a 1966 copy, bought new by my dad back then. It was ... I hope you bought the book. I've been told the mention of the Corvair in ... Also won't start a debate, but.... the last 8 years have been pretty miserable.	12	2 months, 3 weeks ago by gjz30075
hardtops vs. convertibles Owning a MGB Roadster and a Porsche 928 (the essential GT) - I must say ... Quote by Gary: "The factory steel hardtop for my Spitrod isn't restored yet, but when ... The top on the TR3 has only been up for real rain and once on ...	31	2 months, 3 weeks ago by Bret
Keys (please humor my Car Magazine writer fantasies - thx!) hehehe In the catacombs of the black castle, if you took the bridge into one of ... Way simpler than those. You could easily cut a duplicate in shop class. And yeah, ...	7	2 months, 3 weeks ago by KaptKaos
Drive your classic to work Condidering that just over 60k were maded between 1977 to 1995 parts aren't really that ... I really like the 928, but worry that one parts failure can total the car. ... Normally I drive a rental or drive my Supercrew 4x4. But Been taking the Shark ...	42	3 months ago by Bret
Art for the new building Had a thought. The car companies are putting more and more old PR photos (and ...	1	3 months ago by David Wallens
Chrome restoration LOL@racerdave600 sjd ...and home depot. sjd It works wonders on stainless kitchen sinks after you've cleaned something in there the wife ...	7	3 months, 1 week ago by steved033
Site content Anybody got any online article suggestions for either site? Heard any requests, whatever? I'm planning on bring out the Mini this weekend. I'll try to do an update. Anyone? We're running out of time to get one in and proofed for next week.	4	3 months, 1 week ago by Tim Baxter
David & Scott out Thursday morning We're going to the metropolis of DeBary Thursday morning to photograph a SIATA and meet ...	1	3 months, 1 week ago by David Wallens
$600 buying tips for Classic? Whole buncha stuff from Eastwood (or at least as much as $600 would get me). ... new top from Kee Auto Top cool artwork from Driver's Road, or Jack Pumphrey nice ... YES, Coker needs love. would help me a bunch right now. Koni doesn't care so ...	6	3 months, 1 week ago by Tim Baxter
GRM.com project car pages There has been NO styling applied to those pages. Does the spec box need to be that huge? I haven't done ANYTHING to lay those pages out nicely yet. They're bad homely. For ...	4	3 months, 1 week ago by Tim Baxter
New car review categories That sounds pretty workable. I see what Tom's saying though. If he's writing the review, ... I think the initial review should stick to the facts--and maybe that bit should be ... I think we might also want to evaluate our third-person perspective on these. For instance, ...	17	3 months, 2 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
GRM work shirts The GRM work shirts are here. I'll get it photographed pretty darn soon. I'll shoot ...	1	3 months, 2 weeks ago by David Wallens
Amelia Island Hello, new to the forum. I live a few minutes away from Amelia and go ... It was an awesome show--something for everyone whether your poison be vintage Trans-Am, Ferrari, brass-era ... A couple from our local club was down there with their turquoise MGA (Virginia plates).	10	3 months, 2 weeks ago by Burke
John Fitch can use your help Where do people come up with this stuff? I don't know anything about Mr. Fitch's ... I don't want to start a flame war, so I will keep is short and ... sorry ... http://vgmdays.com/fitcharticle.htm	11	3 months, 2 weeks ago by PerryPasu
Another article topic .... 'Tis true, my BMW race car (still street legal) carries the PA emissions exemption. Not ... That would be awesome David!! I would support that for sure. I have to check the exact wording of the ...	5	3 months, 3 weeks ago by ddavidv
Fuel Pump Location I'm seeing if Carl has a better photo or more details. The pump used was ... Bob, From what I recall, the article pointed out they moved the pump because it ... In last months magazine the article on TR6 supercharger had the team mount the fuel ...	3	3 months, 3 weeks ago by David Wallens
David at doctor on Wednesday While we're all announcing our medical stuff, I have a doctor appointment at 3:00 on ...	1	3 months, 3 weeks ago by David Wallens
Tom Wheeler Is Tom still coming here on the 31st? I won't be here. Which might mean it's a GREAT day. Tim won't be here ... Tom wants to come visit on March 31st. I'll be here. anyone have a compelling ...	3	3 months, 3 weeks ago by David S. Wallens
Marketplace We could pass it on to the saferacer guys. I got an email about it, ... Do we care if there's a bogus-looking ad in the Marketplace? Who do we tell? ...	2	3 months, 4 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
$600 I don't have much to add since my check went to the mouse, but to ... all good things. I know Traqmate is a great advertiser, and deserves love, but how ... And the source box: 949Racing: (949) 716-3111, www.949racing.com Autopower Industries: (619) 297-3300, www.autopowerindustries.com Brembo: (800) ...	17	3 months, 4 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
The forgotten SL? I had a 1989 560SL for quite a few years. I decided to sell it ... A manual 280SL is a much nicer driver than a US spec 380SL auto of ... Me too. Sweet cars. Jack	13	4 months, 1 week ago by vaderdave
I don't think... My parents sent me some pictures from Ottawa's last storm that look a whole lot ... A, My heart goes out for you. I used to live in the east and ... I dont think the 6 will see the payment till late May. Going to be ...	12	4 months, 1 week ago by Keith
SEMA Show I'm in the process of getting us booth space for the show. I know it's a long way off, but I just got my SEMA Show registration ...	2	4 months, 1 week ago by Debbie Brozyna
Where is it I know, I know... Five Ws and all that... but somehow this one didn't get ... If it's in a press release, a good way to give more info is to ... Well, I would have thought people would know Road Atlanta was somewhere near Atlanta, but ...	5	4 months, 1 week ago by Tim Baxter
Classic Mazda pre-Sebring party follow-up I emailed back and forth with Chad last week. I will follow up with him ... +1 on what David said. Someone from the sales force might want to follow up ... Just got in from the pre-Sebring party at Classic Mazda, and it went really well. ...	3	4 months, 1 week ago by Greg Voth
Staff blogs It is weird. Doubly so reading them all out of order, and not being sure ... Wow, man. You just made a rough weekend of weirdness for yourself. I'm glad I ... I do hate coffee. The smell of it makes me want to barf.	4	4 months, 2 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
Classic Mazda pre-Sebring event I just spoke to John Doonan. We're going to bring some Mitty posters. We can ... I think I'm going to pass, to many driving events for me this month, no ... I was thinking about it. Although I have no Mazda to drive. I guess it ...	4	4 months, 2 weeks ago by David S. Wallens
Project car updates Like I said, just curious. Pretty soon it'll be irrelevant anyway. On the new system, ... Project cars was the parent, Current and Completed were the children. I'm also putting years ... Exactly... so why have both "project cars" and "current project cars"... there's a redundancy there. ...	21	4 months, 2 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
Suggestion for GRM and CMS events David, a fact sheet for you will be a simple by-product of having the special ... I'm just looking for a simple fact sheet of sorts on the big events that ... Not at this point Debbie... but it's good to know those are out there. At ...	6	4 months, 2 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
Favorite Web sites www.clubroadster.net is the new hotness for Miata queers. WormTech (www.wormtech.com) was THE place to talk ... classiczcars.com has been kicking a fair bit of traffic to Classic over the past month ... from my favorites list: autocrossforum.com sccaforums.com neons.org saabrally.com specialstage.com twinkmorgan.com	6	4 months, 2 weeks ago by Tom Heath
Marketplace I've gone to the marketplace on IE, and yeah, I wouldn't go back. It's almost ... I know that if a site gives me security issues, I tend to go away. ... Got an email, and there's a new post on the board, about the security warning ...	24	4 months, 2 weeks ago by Tim Baxter
Youtube and Myspace accounts Thanks for the add. (myspace humor) Thanks Scott. I'm now in the myspace account, too. For Youtube: the username is GRMtv password is g19r84m	4	4 months, 3 weeks ago by David S. Wallens
Project Tiger Yeah, I can't wait for my Corvair to start, either! ;-) Excellent, another project closer to being done and then you guys can get on with ... It's beautiful.	4	4 months, 3 weeks ago by Marjorie Suddard
Guitar Nice, I actually had time on wednesday to pick up my bass and practice, I ... I'm all about vintage Harmony guitars. I have a '63 broadway archtop (kinda restomod with ... jm, thanks for the tips. I'll head over to the music store this weekend to ...	24	4 months, 3 weeks ago by AndreGT6
Lunch w/Howard Duncan It was a good lunch. Some key points: - SCCA's membership has been in a ... Okay, Tom wins. I bow to his superior attitude. That's pretty cool; Howard and crew ran a great event this past weekend. I'd love ...	5	4 months, 3 weeks ago by David S. Wallens
New GRM site Photos for the new GRM.com slideshow are uploading to Jungledisk right now. The selection hits ... I can make a nice mix tape for you no problem. I'll let you know ... Thanks. I have some from various things (challenge, etc) but that'll be good. I've also ...	7	4 months, 3 weeks ago by David S. Wallens
Carello light wanted I had a difficult time a number of years ago while in Europe sourcing a ... Thanks for the little history lesson. I figured the name was gone but didn't want ... Years ago, Carello was bought by Italian-based, FIAT-owned auto parts conglomerate Magneti-Marelli. In 1999, Bosch ...	7	4 months, 4 weeks ago by Coupefan
Meeting Notes Regarding the new products, I'll volunteer to shoot the photos. I have some ideas. I'm torn. My black shirts fade, my white shirts get grease-stained. Either way, Angel will ... Okay, I'll join the herd. I'd love some black shirts. I realize that they're more ...	12	4 months, 4 weeks ago by David S. Wallens
"Sites" in admin David, I put up another post on the new site, and there are basecamp posts, ... That's cool. When do you expect the beta testing to begin on the GRM site? ... Mentioned in basecamp, but worth mentioning again: One of the cool things about the new ...	3	5 months ago by Tim Baxter
Mini update I'm running the 165/70R10 Yokohamas. They fill the current arches. I'm still deciding if I ... Just make sure you have enough tire to justify arches. Nothing looks dumber than a ... Mine are Group 2 arches, as seen on the old works competition cars. If it ...	17	5 months ago by David S. Wallens
RHD There is a huge difficulty in driving RHD cars... but only in the larger ones. ... I have MGB that I converted to RHD years ago. There was no learning curve ... Hey Guys, I have owned a RHD Fiat X1/9 since 1988 and can say that ...	14	5 months ago by wcelliot
too bad its not challenge priced. or WTF is a Goggomobile? We actually had two Goggomobiles in our micro car story. I loved the design. Here's me with a Goggomobile "stepvan" at Lime Rock Vintage a few years ago. They ... :omg: The Goggomobile is a pretty unique little car but the one listed is way ...	5	5 months ago by David S. Wallens
Tires for Classics Coker makes some really, really nice tires, especially if you want period-correct looks. We were ... I hate to mention a specific name, especially since I know very little about them, ... Here's David's post that kicked it off: We have run a few stories about tires ...	5	5 months ago by David S. Wallens
NH to FL in a TR-6 I haven't put the top back up on the TR-6 since I've been back in ... cool thread. I've been taking the MGB out on sunny days here in Atlanta. Parka, ... Glad all went well. :nice:	28	5 months, 1 week ago by Joe Gearin
Cars from CHiPs Didn't Ponch raced a '55 Chevy...in the canyons? They left out the "Rally 'Round the Bank" episode. It had a ton of old ... Great show and great site! SoCal traffic was actually moving in a few of the ...	9	5 months, 1 week ago by driver109x
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